Dearest Reader,

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I am writing this to you from a bank in Sweden. How I got here will be told at a later date. For now all I wish to say is my next book of poems will be published soon. Please forgive my lack of output on this tompogue.com website as I spilled water on my computer last fall. To my great luck a spare MacBook has just now been discovered in one of these bank vaults - hurrah! hurrah! I am back on the World Wide Web! me and my words. me and my charm. me and my green eyes! no doubt you have missed me. cried yourself to sleep. reading all those bad words from all those bad writers journalists "poets" commenters etc etc etc. there there. all is as it is supposed to be again. No doubt your mind has suffered greatly though. For a tune up might I suggest some Cicero or Plutarch (and a cup of hot tea). Anyhow, as I was saying, my next book of poems will be out SOON. and if you purchase it you will become a millionaire! Va!? A millionaire? Yes, dearly beloved. A m-i-l-l-i-o-n-a-i-r-e. It will have a golden cover and the title will be royal blue and it will fit in the back pocket of a standard pair of mens blue jeans and it will be called :

 

...to be continued

 

(that is not the title that is a cliffhang-)